It's not crashing but just exiting. Maybe you could install valgrind and run "valgrind evince example.pdf" and get a log about the issue? Do you have some public example to point or attach to the bug page?
-- Evince crashes with "bogus memory allocation size" error https://launchpad.net/bugs/51538 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
